High Wind = Electrical Funniness

From : sean christensen

Q: hi ive posted a problem here about my ram2500 that the dealer screwed up. any way i went out and bought a astray code reader very good one helped me fix my 98 diesel jetta. come to find out that dodge did not release info to allow use diy to scan our trucks. is there a reader you can use on this truck. i checked with the manual and it tells me i can get the codes by turning the ignition key on and off several times. im still try to read the blinking engine light.. i found a reader on ebay that says it can read the codes on diesel rams this age. it plugs into the cigarette lighter. any input on this one thanks; dave .

Replies:

From : budd cochran

i have dodge ram truck center cap with the rams head on they for sale on e-bay. maybe take a look and save $$$. e-bay auction # is 7932075102 -- thanks & have a nice day ! ed & sherri persang .

From : tom lawrence

tom im just giving the viewpoint of why it can get out of hand easily. where do you stop calling abortion and begin calling murder i agree with you it can get out of hand just like so many things with humans. unfortunantly it can get out of hand the other way as well and it is hard to decide which one is worse. as for murder i would agree with you that a pba without either the need to save the mothers life or because the fetus is horribly deformed and the child would have a short and painful life if born should be considered murder. sorry tom but ive worked with the handicapped and some that would turn your stomach to look at them and found them to be caringloving and in their own way intelligent educatable people. ive seen completely normal offspring from them as well. deformities is no reason to abort. how much is deformed what kind of deformity come on think about it. do you have one leg shorter than the other most people do ya know. we are talking about two different things. i specifically said the type of deformities that would cause a very short and painful life such as in hours or days not external physical deformities. should the mother die so that the baby may possibly live even if she chooses not to i have no problem with saving a mothers life but at the point being discussed partial birth abortion the child is usually viable and able to go on to what ever life it chooses. here in moab we have had several emergency c-sections for the reason of saving both child and mother. i agree but as you know an emergancy c-section is a fairly serious form of surgery and i am also sure that you know there are times when the mother may not even be abe to survive that surgery. a serious surgery yes. life threatening to mother and child not that often anymore. this last year in a town of onlty 5000 people we peformed 35 c-sections without problems. thats a rather high percentage for this size of town. when both are healthy i agree but in that case there would be no valid need for a pba either. making pbas completely illegal with no exceptions condems these women to a death sentence even though the baby may not survive anyway. making it legal is no guarantee either thats the problem. but one way guarantees the child never has a chance in life. and the other guarantees the death of the mother in that situation. either way its a win lose situation ad in that case i side with the mother. and lets face facts if the mother is willing to let the doctor perform this barbaric procedure to her unborn child for anything but a live or die reason is the child really any better off in the care of this person the tom i really must insist you look closer at the values of the liberals in america. most are secular humanists and have little regard for the lives of the unborn and for any moral values. i must disagree with you on this. while i am sure that there are some that are this way i would not say that most are. i personally know more conservatives that act this way but i will not say that is a conservative trait either. adoption laws need to be re-written to favor all classes of incomes and not just the rich. the adoption laws need to be rewritten period. agreed. i know of a teen foster daughter we had that would have been much better off if a good family could have adopted her. even we though we were good enough to be foster parents didnt qualify. amazing isnt it. you are good enought to be paid to do it but not good enough to do it out of love. some of the systems in this country are a real joke. until the baby is born it is not a child or even an infant and with the way we as humans kill just about everything including each other... that is your opinion. i believe life begins at the moment of conception because the tissues that result from conception can never be a dog a cat or a horse only a human being nothing else. while true there are no guarantees that it will survive to birth or be normal or even capable of life after it is. how many times does a woman miscarry in her reproductive lifetime after she begins having sex given no contraceptive are used i have no idea. most estimates say between 100 and two hundred times. being born is still a long shot but who has the right to take that slim chance away from anyone ill take your word for it. as for the right to take that slim chance away that would be the mother since it is her body that has to do the work and her that has to do without and then take the responsibility. lets get one thing clear i am not pro abortion but i am pro-choice. until birth it is connected to and completely dependant on the mother and is not an individual life. now like you said this is my opinion just like yours is yours and neither one should be legislated or forced on the other. true it is provided f

From : maxpower

tbone wrote i have been running mine at 30 - 32 for the last 10000 with no problems including 4 round trips between jersey and nc. youre driving a 3/4 ton with load range e tires jerry im driving a 1/2 ton with e range tires but they didnt come original equip. well my 300 pound friend a e rated tire is probably in order for anything ya put yer wide ass in or on. bfg roy denny i sure left my backside uncovered for you and mac on that one... denny .

From : miles

i would suggest replacing the battery and leaving the oil alone. i have had batteries go way past 5 years but when they get that old they tend not to be all that reliable especially sitting in the cold for extended periods of time with no use. i always get the biggest battery that i can fit because they really dont cost all that much more and give that little bit extra oomph on those cold mornings or if i go into moron mode and leave the damn lights on when i go out to dinner or the movies. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving im surprised my dodge-dealer battery is still working...about 5 years now. i dont know what brand they use but i just had it inspected by an auto parts store advance autoparts. how reliable is their test all i know is he hooked it up to a few meters and said its good i guess he wasnt trying to sell me a new battery!. still i probably should replace it before i let it sit for 8 weeks in the winter right given that its almost beyond its life-expectancy....and theres a decent chance that it would be dead because of its age after i return from my trip and i dont want to hassle with that after a 30 hours of flying/travelling. that would be a huge hassle actually because in my specific case when i do replace the battery the whole cable has to be replaced also due to a few years ago...the cable head is essentially frozen on to or permanently stuck onto the battery terminal...for reasons i dont want to write anymore about....except for saying its related to alot of chemical build-up and deterioration which was removed a few years ago with part of the terminal and cable head eaten away. thanks for any comments and any recommendations on batteries or where to get a battery i have a 98 dakota v6. ooops im letting it sit it for 8 weeks...ive let it sit for 6 weeks in the past and all i do is top off the gas tank and add extra air to tires and sometimes change oil either before or after.. and thats all i plan to do now...i dont even disconnect the battery. but i dont know if long-term damage i.e. life-expectancy etc was caused by letting it sit for 6 or 8 weeks. just curious how would you know if its causing a problem or not since i would think any problems would not show up for maybe a year or 2 or 3... later i would think its very analagous to smoking...seems like no problem... until 20 years later. with a car i would think that it would be very hard to tell cause-effect problems if things like internal rust result from letting it sit and small cracks then eventually....etc.... mac even eight weeks wont hurt it although your battery may go dead in that time. many times we have a car on our lot that for some reason just doesnt sell and it can sit for eight weeks and even longer with no detriment. check your pdc and see if you have an iod ignition off-draw fuse if so pull it. it disconnects the radio memory etc. and keeps the battery from goind dead due to small drains from the computer. a battery will self-discharge over time though so when you return it wouldnt hurt to give it a charge before driving. mike i have about 80000 miles on my dakota but havent driven much in the past few years. i got a cooling system flush about 2 years ago but only drove between about 10000 or 12000 since then. the manual says to do it every 2 years or x number of miles...i think it says about 30000 miles....is it a good idea to change it before winter even if only about 10 or 12k miles but 2 years. im not sure how important the time factor is. i do plan to let it sit in a garage for about 6 weeks this winter when i travel overseas. a related question is some people/mechanics say to change the oil before letting it sit some say change it soon after returning instead. mac my .02 is to change the coolant every two years regardless of use and mileage. your coolant will likely retain its antifreeze properties much longer than this but the corrosion inhibitors do wear out with time. imho antifreeze is cheap and cooling systems repairs aint! did i mention i own stock in prestone ;^ as far as the oil goes six weeks is no time at all..... many cars sit on our lot for much longer with no adverse effects. if you were going to be gone six months or longer now thats a different story. if you want to change it though i would probably do it before you lay it up. mike .